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Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.

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Safety In Our Kids' Schools: Providing Social & Emotional Support

12/04/18
As a parent, I believe that it is essential that my children feel not just physically safe, but also socially and emotionally safe in their schools. As a mental health professional who has worked in both elementary and high schools, I have seen that physical safety is often the primary focus in...
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Keisha Mathew
Maternal Justice

Mama's Brunch for Quality Education in Jackson, MS

10/16/18
At 11 am on October 13, 2018, Jackson’s mamas got together at the Mississippi Museum of Art to engage in an honest conversation on education and the centering of black motherhood in Jackson, Mississippi. MomsRising and the People’s Advocacy Institute led the initiative in partnership with the...
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Noel Didla
Free Power Pack!
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Get Your Healthy School Power Pack!

09/19/18
All of our children deserve the opportunity to succeed, whether they want to be an astronaut, open a restaurant, or play third base. Children are full of possibility and potential. As parents, caregivers and adults, that gives us great hope for this world. Our children will craft and create a...
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Karen Showalter
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Food!

Let's Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice for NYC!

09/05/18
It's a busy time of year for families, as children head back to school. Parents know: it's often all we can do to make it through the day in one piece. Our hats are off to you! Parents like us work hard to make sure our children have the healthiest and happiest day possible. And sometimes that...
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Monifa Bandele
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Ten Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids About Race

08/30/18
To say that this school year feels a little different than last year is a total understatement. Think pink elephant in your kids’ kindergarten class — different. Yes, we did the usual shopping trips to pick up supplies, getting back into school days bedtime routines and rituals all while mourning...
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Beatriz Beckford
Social & Emotional Development

A Call for Schools to Teach the Whole Student

07/31/18
What do our children need to succeed in school? Sure, our kids need to learn arithmetic, to read and to write. But their success in school and in life will depend on other skills, such as problem solving, teamwork, and how to regulate their emotions. These skills are essential, yet we often forget...
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Diana Limongi

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Jeff Bezos and Amazon: what are you doing with our kids' data?

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7411/">Jeff Bezos and Amazon: what are you doing with our kids' data?</a>

Tell us what you're doing with data the new Echo for kids will gather from our children!

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Jeff Bezos and Amazon: what are you doing with our kids' data?

Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7162/">Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!</a>

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress are proposing significant cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill, as well as creating unnecessary and harmful barriers to access. SIGN OUR LETTER NOW & tell Congress to protect SNAP!

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/6912/">Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App! </a>

Young kids don't need to spend time on social media!

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Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

Sign Our Thank You Note!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7614/">Sign Our Thank You Note!</a>

Victory! We defeated the GOP Farm Bill and its harmful changes to SNAP (food stamps). But now Speaker Ryan has scheduled a revote. Sign our thank you note to the members of Congress who voted NO on the Farm Bill and encourage them to keep it up!

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